Dácil

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Bronze figure of Princess Dácil from the 21st century

Dácil , usually referred to as Princesa Dácil , is a legendary person who was invented by the Canarian poet Antonio de Viana (1578–1650) more than 100 years after her fictional life. There is no documentary evidence of the actual existence of a Guanche Princess Dácil.

Princesa Dácil is described as the beautiful daughter of Bencomo, Menceys of Taoro. The historically proven Bencomo was at the end of the 15th century the troop leader of the Guanche population of the four northern Menceyatos (principalities) of Tenerife who fought against the Castilian conquerors. After the 2nd Battle of Acentejo he is said to have led the delegation of the Guanches, which surrendered in the summer of 1496 in the Castilian field camp in the area of ​​today's city of Los Realejos .

In the text "Antigüedades de las Islas Afortunadas" from 1604, Antonio de Viana describes the love between Dácil and the Castilian conquistador Gonzalo del Castillo. She refused to marry a Guanche prince and, against the ideas of her family, got her will, was baptized in the name of Mencías and married Gonzalo del Castillo.

The story of the Princesa Dácil has been dealt with frequently in Spanish literature. Among other things, Lope de Vega wrote a comedy on the subject with the title "Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria". In Spanish-language literature, the figure of Princess Dácil stands for the integration of the natives of the Canary Islands into the Christian culture of the Castilian conquerors.

See also

Princess Dácil's fountain

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopoldo de la Rosa Olivera: Égloga de Dácil y Castillo . In: Revista de Historia . No. 91 , 1950, ISSN  0213-9464 , p. 116 (Spanish, [1] [accessed October 15, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Antonio Viana: Antigüedades de las Islas Afortunadas . Typografía de La Laguna, La Laguna 1905, p. 121 ff . (Spanish, reprint of the 1604 edition).
  3. ↑ Eugenio Navarro Padorno: Nueva lectura de la "Egloga" de Dácil y el Capitán Castillo . In: Anuario de estudios atlánticos . No. 55 , 2009, ISSN  0570-4065 , p. 26 (Spanish, [2] [accessed November 9, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Lope de Vega: Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Canaria . Ed .: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Viuda de Alonso Martin de Balboa, Madrid 1618 (Spanish, [3] [accessed November 12, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos: El uso de lo indígena y de iconos arqueológicos como referentes de identidad y prestigio en la sociedad canaria actual . In: Antonio Béthencourt Massieu (ed.): Lecturas de historia de Canarias . Acadiemia canaria de la historia, o.O. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 2006, ISBN 978-84-612-3212-3 , pp. 52 (Spanish).

literature

  • Juan Francisco Navarro Mederos: El uso de lo indígena y de iconos arqueológicos como referentes de identidad y prestigio en la sociedad canaria actual . In: Antonio Béthencourt Massieu (ed.): Lecturas de historia de Canarias . Acadiemia canaria de la historia, o.O. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) 2006, ISBN 978-84-612-3212-3 , pp. 47-86 (Spanish).
  • Leopoldo de la Rosa Olivera: Égloga de Dácil y Castillo . In: Revista de Historia . No. 91 , 1950, ISSN  0213-9464 , p. 115–141 (Spanish, [4] [accessed October 15, 2017]).